R Weekly 2017 Issue 12

20 Mar 2017

Highlight

• On Programming Languages; Why My Dad Went From Programming to Driving a Busntguardian.wordpress.com ( ntguardian.wordpress.com ) 

• slickR in Bookdown: Rendering Canonical Interactive User Manualsmetrumresearchgroup.github.io ( metrumresearchgroup.github.io ) 

• hexStickergithub.com - Hexagon sticker with R and ggplot2. ( github.com ) 

R in the Real World

• Exploring 2017 Retail Store Closings with Rrud.is ( rud.is ) 

• Because its Friday… The IKEA Billy indexlonghowlam.wordpress.com ( longhowlam.wordpress.com ) 

• Looking at Biopics of Hollywood using #fivethirtyeight #ggplot2 #ggraphpradeepadhokshaja.wordpress.com ( pradeepadhokshaja.wordpress.com ) 

• Puts as Protectiontimelyportfolio.blogspot.com ( timelyportfolio.blogspot.com ) 

• Mapping Housing Data with Rrealdataweb.wordpress.com ( realdataweb.wordpress.com ) 

• Ingest and visualise Nomad Passport Index datagithub.com ( github.com ) 

• How many digits into pi do you need to go to find your birthday?www.decisionsciencenews.com ( decisionsciencenews.com ) 

Videos and Podcasts

• Learning to learn - R Weekly Podcast 2017:12www.youtube.com - Podcast RSSfeeds.feedburner.com ( youtube.com ) 

• NSSD 34 F Distsoundcloud.com - Hilary and Roger discuss Stitch Fix’s massive Algorithms Tour, reproducibility from a physical scientist perspective, and interpretability in machine learning. ( soundcloud.com ) 

• R and data journalism in New Zealand - Ihaka Lecture Series 2017www.youtube.com ( youtube.com ) 

Insights

• The levels of data science classsimplystats.github.io ( simplystats.github.io ) 

• Why I love R Notebookswww.rstudio.com ( rstudio.com ) 

• Spatial Modeling Using Statistical Learning Techniquesr-spatial.org ( r-spatial.org ) 

• What does more efficient Monte Carlo mean?xianblog.wordpress.com ( xianblog.wordpress.com ) 

• On Programming Languages; Why My Dad Went From Programming to Driving a Busntguardian.wordpress.com ( ntguardian.wordpress.com ) 

R in Organizations

• Data Science at StitchFixblog.revolutionanalytics.com ( revolutionanalytics.com ) 

• Running R on Amazon Athenaaws.amazon.com ( aws.amazon.com ) 

Resources

• Graphical and Latent Variable Modelingm-clark.github.io ( m-clark.github.io ) 

• Introduction to Generalized Additive Modelm-clark.github.io ( m-clark.github.io ) 

• slickR in Bookdown: Rendering Canonical Interactive User Manualsmetrumresearchgroup.github.io ( metrumresearchgroup.github.io ) 

• Code, data & slides for 3-day network analysis workshopeiko-fried.com ( eiko-fried.com ) 

• Intro to Spatial Analysis in Rjafflerbach.github.io ( jafflerbach.github.io ) 

Tutorials

• 1 dataset, 10 visualisations with Rcolinfay.me ( colinfay.me ) 

• Quandl and Forecastingwww.rstudio.com ( rstudio.com ) 

• R + D3, A powerful and beautiful combormnppt.com ( rmnppt.com ) 

• Improved Python-style Logging in Rmazamascience.com ( mazamascience.com ) 

• AUC Meets the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney U-Statisticblog.revolutionanalytics.com ( revolutionanalytics.com ) 

• Bar bar plots but not Babar plotswww.masalmon.eu ( masalmon.eu ) 

• K-means clustering demonstrated eranraviv.com ( eranraviv.com ) 

• How Reproducible Data Analysis Scripts Can Help You Route Around Data Sharing Blockersblog.ouseful.info ( ouseful.info ) 

• Writing manuscripts in Rstudio, easy citationsrmhogervorst.nl ( rmhogervorst.nl ) 

• Ensemble Methods are Doomed to Fail in High Dimensionsandrewgelman.com ( andrewgelman.com ) 

• How To Set Up R on Ubuntu 14.04www.digitalocean.com ( digitalocean.com ) 

• Plotting trees from Random Forest models with ggraphshiring.github.io ( shiring.github.io ) 

• 2D contours of several penalty functions in statistics as GIF imageswww.alexejgossmann.com ( alexejgossmann.com ) 

• Another R [Non-]Standard Evaluation Ideawww.win-vector.com ( win-vector.com ) 

• Neural Networks: How they work, and how to train them in Rblog.revolutionanalytics.com ( revolutionanalytics.com ) 

• Benchmarking rxNeuralNet for OCRblog.revolutionanalytics.com ( revolutionanalytics.com ) 

• Native support for candlestick charts in Plotly and Rmoderndata.plot.ly ( moderndata.plot.ly ) 

• Simulations to explore excessive lagged X variables in time series modellingellisp.github.io ( ellisp.github.io ) 

• Experimenting With Sankey Diagrams in R and Pythonblog.ouseful.info ( ouseful.info ) 

• Book Review: Testing R Codeblog.revolutionanalytics.com ( revolutionanalytics.com ) 

• Unit Testing in Rwww.rblog.uni-freiburg.de ( rblog.uni-freiburg.de ) 

• Adding figure labels (A, B, C, …) in the top left corner of the plotting regionlogfc.wordpress.com ( logfc.wordpress.com ) 

• The R qgraph Package: Using R to Visualize Complex Relationships Among Variables in a Large Dataset, Part Onedmwiig.net ( dmwiig.net ) 

• R, GIS, and fuzzyjoin to reconstruct demographic data for NUTS regions of Denmarkikashnitsky.github.io ( ikashnitsky.github.io ) 

• 4 tricks for working with R, Leaflet and Shinywww.r-graph-gallery.com ( r-graph-gallery.com ) 

• Data Visualization – Part 1www.stoltzmaniac.com ( stoltzmaniac.com ) 

New Packages & Tools

• mathpixgithub.com - Convert images of mathematical equations to LaTeX for inclusion in rmarkdown documents ( github.com ) 

• PWFSLSmokemazamascience.com - Utilities for Working with Air Quality Monitoring Data ( mazamascience.com ) 

• mlrMBOmlr-org.github.io - the toolbox for (Bayesian) Black-Box Optimization ( mlr-org.github.io ) 

• hexStickergithub.com - Hexagon sticker with R and ggplot2. ( github.com ) 

• iheatmaprgithub.com - Complex, interactive heatmaps in R ( github.com ) 

• ncaa_bball_datagithub.com - NCAA basketball team level data with tourney outcomes ( github.com ) 

• unitedzer.github.io - Measurement units in R ( edzer.github.io ) 

New Releases

• Rcpp 0.12.10dirk.eddelbuettel.com - Provides C++ classes that greatly facilitate interfacing C or C++ code in R. ( dirk.eddelbuettel.com ) 

• RcppEigen 0.3.2.9.1dirk.eddelbuettel.com - Rcpp Integration for the ‘Eigen’ Templated Linear Algebra Library ( dirk.eddelbuettel.com ) 

• imager 0.40.1cran.r-project.org - Image Processing Library Based on CImg ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• doFuture 0.4.0www.jottr.org - doFuture: A universal foreach adaptor ready to be used by 1,000+ packages ( jottr.org ) 

• future 1.4.0cran.r-project.org - future: Unified Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• future.BatchJobs 0.14.0cran.r-project.org - future.BatchJobs: A Future API for Parallel and Distributed Processing using BatchJobs ( cran.r-project.org ) 

• canvasXpress 0.14.7github.com - canvasXpress was developed as the core visualization component for bioinformatics and systems biology analysis at Bristol-Myers Squibb. ( github.com ) 

Call for Participation

• R Google Summer of Code 2017github.com - Organization Pagesummerofcode.withgoogle.com - Students will contribute to free/open-source R packages for 3 months during the summer. Mentors get code written for their project. ( github.com ) 

R Project Updates

Updates from R Coredeveloper.r-project.org: ( developer.r-project.org ) 

• When the condition code in if(.) or while(.) is not of length one, an error instead of a warning may be triggered by setting an environment variable, see the help page.

• sample() now uses two uniforms for added precision when the uniform generator is Knuth-TAOCP, Knuth-TAOCP-2002, or a user-defined generator and the population size is 2^25 or greater.

• There is support for compiling C++14 or C++17 code in packages on suitable platforms: see Writing R Extensions for how to request this.

• configure tests for a C++17-compliant compiler. The tests are experimental and subject to change in the future.

• strwrap() reduces indent if it is more than half width rather than giving an error.

• R CMD config gains a --all option for printing names and values of all basic configure variables. It now knows about all the variables used for the C++98, C++11 and C++14 standards.

Upcoming Events

• R/Finance 2017www.rinfinance.com May 19 and 20, 2017
  From the inaugural conference in 2009, the annual R/Finance conference in Chicago has become the primary meeting for academics and practioners interested in using R in Finance. ( rinfinance.com ) 

• useR! 2017user2017.brussels July 4, 2017
  The annual useR! conference is the main meeting of the international R user and developer community. ( user2017.brussels ) 

More past events at R conferences & meetupsconf.rweekly.org. ( conf.rweekly.org ) 

Quotes of the Week

We wanted the readxl logo to capture that special feeling you get when you hear: "We keep all our data in Excel". @hadleywickhamtwitter.com pic.twitter.com/pBI4EFWhCjt.co ( twitter.com ) 

— Jenny Bryan (@JennyBryan) twitter.com ( twitter.com )